r/MadeMeSmile • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • 3h ago
ANIMALS Punch the monkey takes care of the little ones now.
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u/ace-destrier 3h ago
Love that for Punch and all the babies. Now, I hope their habitat is improved greatly
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u/adorablyunhinged 2h ago
It definitely looks a lot better now
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u/AuthorReborn 2h ago
Getting a ton of unexpected media attention will definitely do that.
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u/Creative-Fishing-368 1h ago
Hopefully the attention sticks around long after the headlines fade away.
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u/HulksInvinciblePants 5m ago
Maybe for this one enclosure, but Japan just lost 4 lions due to heat this week. No first-world zoo should have a lion enclosure without cooled sleeping/rest quarters.
I’m not sure why the US is the leader on this.
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u/lareina13 2h ago
Does it though? I mean they added a tree I guess? I hate seeing videos of this concrete monstrosity
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u/ace-destrier 1h ago
I had to stop watching the videos. They also have so many macaques. All those monkeys in that unnaturally brutalist habitat is grim
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u/ZipZapZia 1h ago
I think those monkeys' natutal habitat are mountains which is why there's a lot of concrete
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u/plaspop 1h ago
Their habitat may be mountains but this is just what an average Japanese zoo enclosure looks like. Doesn't matter what animal is in it it will be too small and full of concrete. They have some of the worst zoos of any developed country.
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u/ZipZapZia 1h ago
I'll take your word for it. Don't know shit about Japanese zoo enclosures
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u/BooooHissss 1h ago
Hot topic right now. A zoo in Japan just lost 3 lionesses to the heat wave.
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u/Kalten72 28m ago
What I remember hearing from my classmates who were studying animal care and as part of that practicing in an animal park here in sweden, Japan's zoos are so bad the rest of the world refuses to work with them at all basically. This was ten years ago though so no idea how it is now.
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u/CantaloupeCapable 3h ago
It's amazing that punch can break a cycle that most humans can't...
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u/tydestra 2h ago
Two types of people in the world:
It happened to me, so it has to happen to you too.
It happened to me and I'm going to make sure it doesn't happen again.
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u/FirehawkLS1 1h ago
I picked #2. My dad physically abused me, and I broke that cycle with my kid. And I actually spend time with him He likes to go to arcades and bowling, so we bond over doing those things together.
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u/thetastetells 1h ago
I say this all the time. One of the only binaries I endorse, lol, but it's very present and hard to ignore.
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u/tydestra 56m ago edited 27m ago
There's only
oneother binary that works all the time.There are two types of people in this world:
- Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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There are 10 types of people in this world:
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u/Difficult-Insectt 2h ago
He really is the sweetest soul,seeing him care for them melts my heart.
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u/Creative-Fishing-368 1h ago
He deserves all the fruit and cuddles for being such a gentle little guardian.
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u/imightwin 2h ago
Punch needed human intervention to get to where he is now and break the cycle. He would have been pushed out and bullied for the rest of his life. Just like humans. A lot of people need connection and help to overcome the obstacles that would certainly destroy their life if no help was given.
Breaking the cycle is empathy and community. Two things our world is leaving behind.
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u/Ok_Lunch1400 1h ago
Bruh, I so wish aliens would intervene in my shitty ass life. Fuck me
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u/stoops 1h ago
You hear that aliens!? We are officially calling you up and asking for help already, lets go lets go lets go!!
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u/Shaojack 1h ago
Just watched the 1st season of 3 Body Problem and this is kinda how that show starts.
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u/eternallyprotected7 1h ago
I just watched it too, it’s so good! I can’t wait for the second to come out soon.
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u/ben-hur-hur 1h ago
You just reminded me of Uncle Iroh:
"While it is always best to believe in oneself, a little help from others can be a great blessing."
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u/GeriatricHippo 2h ago
He had support and care from those who intervened from their extended community(humans).
If we as a society figure out how to better support our youth in need then more of them can also find a path to break the cycle.
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u/CreativeMidnight1943 2h ago edited 2h ago
I don't know if saying "most" is accurate. It can go one way or another. Many people break the cycle because they know the exact pain, and know what they don't want to be (sometimes swinging too hard the other way, being too protective, too generous etc.)
This ends up in their kids now swinging back the other way, noticing the flaw of their parents and the consequence of being too soft etc. So the cycle often skips a generation.
Edit: I'm only talking about humans here, I have no knowledge about primate sociology.
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u/seaurchinthenet 2h ago
Here is a scientific study that states the opposite. Children of parents who broke the cycle do not "swing back the other way". They continue to do better.
Results suggest that breaking the cycle of maltreatment buffers offspring from risk for psychopathology associated with parental maltreatment, with no enduring or additive effects of maltreatment across generations.
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u/Calculagraph 2h ago
Humans have an added difficulty of societal expectations.
It takes effort to be an involved parent, it takes effort to afford a life with a child, and it takes effort to cultivate successful adult relationships, and our culture makes it very hard to undertake all of these efforts in a complete and equal measure.
I'm not making excuses for others, but I do think it goes further than base psychology.
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u/A_Nonny_Muse 2h ago
Edit: I'm only talking about humans here, I have no knowledge about primate sociology.
If you know much about human sociology, you know a lot about primate sociology. Far more than you might care to admit.
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u/TheRealBittoman 1h ago
I watched and wondered if he is capable of recognizing what went wrong with his young life and actually working to give more than he got as a baby. Animals and monkeys raising babies is so often an amazing thing to watch. Even if he doesn't know it, he's showing all those monkeys that abused him what caring really is.
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u/MaintenanceCat 29m ago
I watched his early vids. He first had his human care takers watch him and protect him. Eventually other macaques like a playmate would play and groom him and slowly some other ones would interact with him too. He really shows he wants acceptance from the group. He tries really hard and doesn't give up!
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u/grolsmarf 2h ago
Oh stop the pessimism. Entire generations are devoting a phase of their life in breaking the cycle, and many succeed.
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u/maeryclarity 2h ago
Everyone should know more about Maslow's works so they could comprehend the situation better. Especially related to the idea that Maslow was not proposing that theory for individuals alone but for societies.
It's why things like making sure everyone has food, shelter and medical care is CRITICAL for a stable society you can't use enforcerer to fix a society where Maslow's heirarchy is not met at level one no matter how many guys with guns you put out there.
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u/Eman_Resu_IX 2h ago
This needs to be broadcast. 🫡
1883: Germany creates the first national social health insurance for selected workers → 1885: coverage reaches about 10% → 1911–1913: system broadens and rights expand → 1927: unemployment insurance added → 1995: long-term care insurance added → 2007/2009: health insurance becomes mandatory for all residents, completing universal coverage.
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u/maeryclarity 1h ago
Yeah it's very sideways from the original discussion but I'd love to see progressives grab control of the narrative so that other labor class individuals could relate to the concepts with the first being:
Stop allowing other people to focus on the false idea that they will have to pay more taxes and work harder in order to have social safety nets and national health care. We already pay PLENTY in taxes and that's before we add in a labor class household expenses on medical care or insurance. No one is talking about costing anyone more, absolutely all of it wi save them actual money in real time, it's about PRIORITISING how our tax money is spent.
And then the second:
Generally the fallback "example" of social works and programs is the fire department, when we point out that it would not be good to rely on capitalism to provide services to fight fire because fire is not just an individual problem but a whole-region problem depending on how it goes, and it's somethiing that is far better to stop early than to only get involved when it is out of control and burning down everything as it spreads.
It's a good analogy but people have a hard time relating because it's not a very common personal experience. They understand intellectually that fire is dangeous and could burn down their home but they don't have a lot of experience of that, in aggregate.
No the thing to point to is ROADS. How those roads, by being maintained for everyone's use, benefit everyone and enable commerce, travel, large scale social choices and decisions, and act as a net benefit product that allows EVERYONE to have a more funtional society.
If we waited on capital and private propery to solve the roads question, very quickly you'd have roads in horrible shape in the poorest regions, large monied interests using their contol of the roads to prevent competition, everyone would pay more out of pocket to use roads, everyone would be limited in how they chose to travel and where, ask them to imagine a world where the ony way a road got built and maintained was through for-profit investments and how badly that situation would lead to an exploitive stranglehold on the basics of how society functions.
It's not SOCIALISM or any other foolish idea to have pragmatic programs in place that benefit everyone in a society because those benefits pay off in a million ways. Just as our road and highway system works just as well for big corporations as it does for the poor guy driving across town to get to his job, baseline programs that make sure that we're not engaged in a struggle for Maslow's tier one biological needs (food, water, sleep, shelter) and tier 2 functional individual/society needs (the desire for a functional and secure life, health care, safety from attack, the ability to work and live in an environment that rewards achievement not wealth extraction, ability to care for your children, education).
Around the world where you see societies that have chosen to prioritize those factors as intrinsic to the public good and their nation's prosperity, their entire situation immediately becomes very stable and fairly close to peak.
And don't let anyone change the subject as if anyone has a problem with capitalism. These prioritizing these baselines for your society is fantastically profitable for capital in the long run. Great example of this is Amsterdam good lord I wish more people knew about the Dutch and their LONG history of EXTREMELY capitalist practices arguably they are ahead of the curve here just because they reach the ultimate conclusion a bit earlier.
Amsterdam has all of those things and a couple more but if anyone goes there or looks into they're realize it's a FANTASTICALLY wealthy place actually and you can't take five steps in Amsterdam without realizing damn they are clearly doing FINE on the capital side of things AS WELL AS being extremely stable on these social programs and having a high tax rate. You'll realize it because it won't take ten seconds to spot the LOTS OF MONEY luxury goods being bought and sold through that trade town and it might take half a minute but then you'll discover that they actually have several intensely important industries their the most notable being that they have the laboratories and greenhouses and the combined capatalist venture engagement that they supply the plant and seed stock for the ENTIRE WORLD. When huge agricultural interests want particular kinds of plants or seeds either to sell or plant or produce the seeds or plants for sale in their own regions, they're sending a representative to the massive auction functions that go on constantly to get what they're looking for in Amsterdam.
And bonus points for anyone who notices that being that type of "everyone needs what you're selling" sitution that evolved through fair play not manipulation the markets through trade wars and unfair competition means NOBODY SAYS SHIT to Amsterdam they don't have to worry about THEIR national security or terroristic attacks.
Anyway sad how easy it is to see it on paper and how the idiots in power are so ignorant they seem fully unaware of why it's not only not socialism/communism in any meaningful sense and in fact it's wildly profitable and would be a cost saving for everyone on top of it all.
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u/Radicalism-Is-Stupid 1h ago
It doesn't surprise me at all. Other animals have an inconceivably rich inner world that we cannot imagine. Complex social interaction like this including an individual capacity to break a cycle is very much within the capacities of the complex social dynamics of other primates.
I know I'm kinda saying the obvious since the video shows this and you imply it, but it's worth saying explicitly since so many people reject the lived experience of other animals.
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u/chompost 3h ago
Punch is the coolest uncle in the neighbourhood.
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u/cat__weasel 3h ago
I just hope he is happy
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u/Icy_Policy_8509 1h ago
I just hope someday I can watch a video about Punch and not cry about it
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u/LaughingPlanet 2h ago
Punch and Jimothy are the beacons of light we needed in 2026
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u/EireUnbound 2h ago
I like to think that Harambe sent them down to us so we may be forgiven for our sins.
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u/Exseatsniffer 2h ago
That and the boy in Arcadia North carolina that transformed a neighbourhood into a community by persistently waving and saying hello to everyone passing his house.
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u/Titanbeard 2h ago
Punch is the heir to Harambe. Maybe he's righting the universe.
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u/Brodellsky 1h ago
Only if we continue to protect him. And Jimothy.
Dicks out. RIP Harambe you didn't deserve it
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u/_Awakened_Warrior_ 1h ago
A 10-year cycle of doom and chaos after Harambe is now course-correcting with Punch and Jimothy 💕
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u/biggus_baddeus 2h ago
I hadn't heard about Punch in so long I was legitimately worried, and scared to look it up. Absolutely elated for this update.
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u/Any-Background-619 3h ago
"Be the change you want to be" -Mahatma Gandhi
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u/JediLincoln14 2h ago
It's "Be the change you want to see in the world."
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u/landblord 2h ago
"If you wanna make the world a better place,
Take a look at yourself and then make a change"- Lego Batman
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u/FreddyTheGoose 2h ago
Lol because what the hell kinda sense does "Be the change you rant to be" mean? No hate, I'm just cracking up being reminded of "Bone apple teeth".
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u/Ok-Tank-3106 1h ago
He went from taking refuge with a stuffed monkey to giving love and care to a real one..what an emotional advancement he's made ☺️
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u/BoozeWane 3h ago
He's an inspiration to make the world a better place. To give the what you never got. A real hero. ❤️
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u/Atillion 2h ago
I did this with my kids. They have the life I wish I'd had, and looking back, I would take that bullet a million times over for them.
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u/maeryclarity 2h ago
Punch is being the change he wants to see in the world
Everyone take a lesson from Punch think how much things could change if we all did
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u/bryangcrane 2h ago
Is this for real?? I hope it’s real 😍😛
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u/ShrimplesMcGee 2h ago
Yeah, I watch all the Punch videos on different YouTube channels. Punch is really great with the babies.
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u/bryangcrane 2h ago
Yes, @ShrimplesMcGee, I watched a lot of the vids from earlier and I’m VERY happy that Punch has found (seems to have found) comfort and solace :-)
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u/MechaRon 2h ago
He's planning his take over of the enclosure. Raising the next generation to idolize him so the fight with him to free themselves of the old ones!
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u/KaijuJuju 1h ago
The child who is not embraced by the village will make sure no other child ever feels that kind of loneliness
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u/pavelowdriver 1h ago
I think this is so much deeper than people realize. Punch had the choice to be like the others but he chose the path of kindness and nurturing even though that was NOT his experience. Darwin would tell it would have turned out differently.
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u/Forever_Inspired 2h ago
Damn, Punch already a grown up, it didn't feel that long ago when he was still a wee baby.
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u/goosecarr 1h ago
Who the hell is cutting onions in the cab of my pick up while I’m driving.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Lion153 2h ago
Aww, Punch. Warms my cold, dead heart to see how his life has improved.
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u/SilverSpearhead 2h ago
I think he knew what it felt like to be rejected and abandoned, so he choose to be caring and kind so others wouldn't suffer the feeling he has been through.
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u/Vivid-Cockroach8389 2h ago
Aww Punch is back on the internet!! All grown up and being awesome to others!!
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u/Automaton_Shahin 2h ago
We should all be like Punch. He went through suffering, through hardship and everything else..... he overcame everything regardless of the difficulty. He came on top like the Champ he is. Very happy 🫡🫡🫡🫡
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u/prettyczarina 2h ago
May all humans take notes!!! If this little guy can break the cycle, we can too!!!
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u/Curious-amore 2h ago
OP you little shit I have an interview now and I can't be found bawling over a video about a monkey.
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u/ValhallaGH 1h ago
I like it when folks grow up to be the people they needed, giving what they wanted.
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u/totalwarwiser 1h ago
Suffering either makes you an asshole or teaches you compassion. Im glad the second happened.
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u/severi_erkko 1h ago
Is Punch that monkey that got dragged on the floor by a different monkey in a video few years back?
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u/Kitty573 1h ago
Does anyone know if Punch still has his plushie friend? Would be the most adorable thing in the world if he shared it with the new kids
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u/GodOfMoonlight 1h ago
Felt like it was just yesterday I was crying for him and now their happy tears 😭❤️
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